BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Positive family history (FH+) of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a risk factor for own CVD. We aimed to analyze the effect of different types of FH (stroke, coronary heart disease (CHD), peripheral artery disease (PAD) on carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in young and middle-aged ischemic stroke patients. METHODS First-degree FH of CVD was assessed in ischemic strok...

We investigated whether a family history of lethal prostate cancer (PCa) was associated with high-risk disease or biochemical recurrence in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. A cohort of radical prostatectomy patients was stratified into men with no family history of PCa (NFH); a first-degree relative with PCa (FH); and those with a first-degree relative who had died of PCa (FHD). Demog...

Intensive insulin treatment is known to improve β-cell function in the majority of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and family history (FH) is known to be an important independent risk factor for T2DM. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the difference in first-phase insulin secretion and the effect of intensive insulin therapy on the improvement ...

Familial clustering of venous thromboembolism (VTE) was described as far back as 1905 by Briggs. Although Egeberg discovered inherited deficiency of antithrombin in 1965, it was not until Dahlbäck discovered resistance to activated protein C in 1993 that it became clear that genetic factors are common risk factors of VTE. Several genes have been linked to familial aggregation of VTE and genome-...

Although germline TP53 mutations have been identified in women with breast cancer from families meeting Li-Fraumeni criteria, their contribution to breast cancer per se is not well known, but is thought to be minimal. We aimed to determine the prevalence of germline TP53 mutations in subgroups of early-onset breast cancer. Germline TP53 mutation status was assessed by DNA sequencing, screening ...

BACKGROUND Stroke in female first-degree relatives (FDRs) is a powerful risk factor for ischemic stroke in women, but its association with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is unknown. Family history (FH) of stroke is omitted from existing myocardial infarction risk prediction tools, which perform less well in women than in men. Our objective was to study the sex-of-parent and sex-of-proband inter...

Alterations in red blood cell (RBC) Na+,K+ pump and in Na+,K+ cotransport (CoT) have been described in essential hypertension (EH). We examined pump and CoT in 50 normotensive (NT) subjects and 58 EH subjects subdivided by race and family history of hypertension (+ FH). RBCs were preloaded with Na+ to obtain intracellular levels of 25 mM/liter cells by using the p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonic ...

First-degree family history (FH) of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease and the apolipoprotein E e4 allele (APOE4) are risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease that may affect brain function prior to onset of clinical symptoms. In this functional MRI (fMRI) study, we used an episodic recognition task that required discrimination of previously viewed (PV) and novel (NV) faces to examine differences in bloo...

We performed a retrospective study of autoimmune conditions (ACs) in 235 hemochromatosis probands at diagnosis by analyzing age, sex, ACs, history of first-degree family members with ACs (FH), diabetes, heavy ethanol consumption, elevated serum ALT/AST, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, iron removed to achieve iron depletion (QFe), and positivity for human leukocyte ...

familial hypercholesterolemia (fh) is an inherited common autosomal mendelian disorder of lipoprotein metabolism with a population prevalence of 1 in 500. fh is characterized by severely elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (ldl-c), which result in surplus deposition of cholesterol in tissues. this condition leads to premature at hero sclerosis and early-onset of coronary hear...